"According to Wynn-Williams, Facebook actually built an extensive censorship and surveillance system for the Chinese state – spies, cops and military – to use against Chinese Facebook users, and FB users globally. They promise to set up caches of global FB content in China that the Chinese state can use to monitor all Facebook activity, everywhere, with the implication that they'll be able to spy on private communications, and censor content for non-Chinese users."
You're killing me, man... I already own most of Cory's books in audiobook format but now I have to look at an audiobook sale.
"no dinner out for you, damn children! I spent all my money on books!"
First, Facebook becomes too big to fail.
Then, Facebook becomes too big to jail.
Finally, Facebook becomes too big to care.
Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’ (23 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/
AI influencer beschleunigen den Vertrauensverlust in Social Media. Da wird das face-to-face treffen in physikalischen sozialen Räumen wieder wertvoller. Das klingt ja mal gut.
@dbread likes that.
Thomas #Lohninger von #epicenterworks eröffnet mit seiner #Keynote den Vortragsteil der Grazer #Linuxtage.
Düstere Aussichten auf europäische und österreichische Aktivitäten.
Na dann ist ja gut.
Nicht.
"Vor allem die reichsten 10 Prozent der Bevölkerung haben ihr Vermögen vermehrt."
Zwischen 12h und 16h wird sogar Geld gutgeschrieben für Stromverbrauch.
Aber nur mit Philips Glühbirnen!
Oag.
Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump
https://www.404media.co/sales-of-hard-drives-prepper-disk-for-the-end-of-the-world-have-boomed-under-trump/
"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of some of the content that is being deleted by the administration"
Who put the AI in trAIns??
Due to popular demand, here is a list of the fedi-services that are part of the infosec.* family:
1 - https://infosec.exchange - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does not block threads.net)
2 - https://relay.infosec.exchange - Activitypub relay
3 - https://video.infosec.exchange - Peertube instance (like youtube)
4 - https://infosec.press - WriteFreely blog*
5 - https://pixel.infosec.exchange - Pixelfed instance (like instagram)
6 - https://matrix.infosec.exchange - Synapse (with sliding sync) homeserver*
7 - https://infosec.place - Akkoma instance (like mastodon)
8 - https://infosec.town - iceshrimp instance (like mastodon)
9 - https://infosec.pub - Lemmy instance (like reddit)
10 - https://fedia.io - General interest mbin instance (also like reddit)
11 - https://fedia.social - General interst Iceshrimp instance
12 - https://elk.infosec.exchange - Elk web interface for Mastodon
13 - https://books.infosec.exchange - Bookworym instance (like goodreads)
14 - https://meetups.infosec.exchange (mobilizon)
15 - https://infosec.space - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does
block threads.net)
16 - https://convo.casa - Vanilla (for now) Mastodon instance
*indicates the instance authenticates against Infosec.exchange
Wow. That's quite a phishing attack vector provided by google:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1912439023982834120.html
"Works as intended" my ass.
"inetpub" .... How long no see :D